FICTION / Body Selim
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
We know Body Selim. If you look around, you’ll find that after this incident, many people came to know him through the newspapers.
Poetry / The aviary within
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
Essay / When fanfiction swapped out fans for publishing deals
16 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Aruna Chakravarti’s ghosts don’t just scare, they remember
16 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Reviews
Poetry / Noboborsho
15 April 2026, 16:44 PM
Poetry
Reflections / Boishakh in fragments: Food, storms, and memory
14 April 2026, 18:03 PM
Reflection
News Report / Two Bangladeshi writers make 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist
14 April 2026, 16:54 PM
News
Essay / Rabindranath Tagore and the evolving spirit of Pohela Baishakh
13 April 2026, 23:12 PM
Essay
Not just child’s play: Bengal’s rhymes as cultural memory
13 April 2026, 20:12 PM
Culture
REFLECTIONS / The fading appeal of the Eid magazine
Long before Pinterest boards and Instagram FYP, the Eid shongkha dictated what we wore.
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
EVENT REPORT / ‘Unlearning the Book’: When stories escape the page
17 March 2026, 15:35 PM
News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
12 April 2026, 21:43 PM
REFLECTIONS / Hope, doubts, and the fate of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
19 February 2026, 19:01 PM
EVENT REPORT / Md Ashanur Rahman receives the International Creative Arts Award 2025
19 January 2026, 17:38 PM
NEWS REPORT / NSU DEML launches inaugural certificate course in creative writing
17 January 2026, 16:00 PM
The six-week intensive program offers beginners and budding writers mentor-led guidance in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, focusing on Bangladeshi cultural narratives
EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
EVENT REPORT / Unveiling ‘The July Resolve': Stories of resilience & resistance
14 January 2026, 16:01 PM
On the chilly afternoon of January 10, Bookworm Bangladesh, in collaboration with Voices Shaping Society, hosted the book launch of The July Resolve, a collection of 36 narratives that depicts the strength and struggles of people from all walks of life during the Monsoon Revolution of 2024.
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Fiction
The scramble was almost instantaneous and without mercy. Men in freshly tailored panjabis—stitched for the next morning's prayers—threw elbows for the simple right to go back home.
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
FICTION / Little Grey - Part 2
21 February 2026, 01:27 AM
THE SHELF / If characters from different books went on a date
12 February 2026, 00:00 AM
POETRY / Potatoes are burning in the fryer
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
THE SHELF / 5 books to read as a performative male
3 December 2025, 18:00 PM
SUNDOWN
As had been happening to him a lot lately, especially during a long wait, he dozed off. It occurred to him that he could not keep his...
20 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Digital Love
The past few decades have seen remarkable changes people's romantic lives. Even in Bangladesh, where families fixing matches was the social norm for decades...
18 November 2015, 18:00 PM
The Horror! The Horror!
IN 1975, when Chinua Achebe accused Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and harshly deprecated the image of Africa as portrayed in...
15 November 2015, 18:00 PM
SHABDAGHAR
Shabdaghar, a monthly magazine of culture and literature centers on the glorious treasures of Bangla art, culture and literature.
15 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Beyond a river's lament
So many writers in the field of literature (particularly poetry) from any country have associated (or tried to) nature with human emotion
15 November 2015, 18:00 PM
MARCHING HUMANITY
They are walking altogether - dragging their feet
13 November 2015, 18:00 PM
DEMONS
This is an excerpt of Nesar Nadim's début novel "Demons". The book is available in the bookstores and at rokomari.com
13 November 2015, 18:00 PM
In remembrance of Humayun Ahmed, the wizard of words
Humayun Ahmed is the most celebrated writer of contemporary time and one of the best story tellers in the history of Bangla literature.
13 November 2015, 04:24 AM
A novel on war time rape victims
A SECRET OF A WAR BABY, written by Shahazada Basunia is a novel which mainly focuses on the war time rape victims who made their supreme sacrifices for the sake of achieving independence.
8 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Mind revealing micro-fictions
Anwarul Kabir's latest compilation of fifty two micro-fictions Mind Reader got published in Ekushey Boi Mela of 2015.
8 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift's Allegoric Masterpiece
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the top-ranking English writers of the eighteenth century. He is widely known as a satirist.
8 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Haruki Murakami's “After Dark”
Haruki Murakami is a popular contemporary Japanese writer with impressive credentials. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages...
8 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Strange motivations
I'm grateful to the novelist James Meek for introducing me to a new critical term. Reviewing Jonathan Franzen'sPurity (“From Wooden to Plastic”, LRB, 24/09/15), Meek writes that the first appearance of Leila Helou“is couched in the leaden terms of the Unaccountably
6 November 2015, 18:00 PM
FREE WRITING
I have been asked to write a few words about my experience, with the purpose of offering inspiration to young Bangladeshis. But my personal history seems to me so particular as to be of little use to anybody: for one thing, although I was born in Bangladesh, I grew up mainly in the West.
6 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Buddhism in Bangladesh since 2nd century BCE
WITH the current occurrence of religious intolerance and rise of fundamentalism, the publication of Buddhist Heritage of Bangladesh is a welcome relief.
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Spotlight on an essence of Bangladesh's culture
It goes without saying that rising globalism in this age of information technology has had, is having, and will continue to have for the foreseeable future...
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Finish the Book and Die
I first came across the term “Pulling a Robert Jordan” while reading a 2011 New Yorker essay on George R.R. Martin and the treatment some ...
30 October 2015, 18:00 PM
THE SECOND WIFE
In our family my maternal grandmother was known as Choti Amma. She was indeed my nana's second wife. The first wife or Buri Amma...
30 October 2015, 18:00 PM
The genius making sense with his 'nonsense'
In remembrance of Sukumar Ray, the great Bangalee poet, story writer and playwright Bangla literature will forever be indebted to.
30 October 2015, 15:50 PM
Learning To Live and Laugh
When people we love meet their ends through chronic illnesses or sudden accidents, we find a way amid the misery to accept the circumstances – circumstances that were out of our hands.
28 October 2015, 18:00 PM
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